Greedy Boss by C L Cruz

Author:C L Cruz [Cruz, C L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Helena

Oakwood City’s most sought after PR agent caught in a love triangle.

Billionaire businessman and rock star fight over the Mary Poppins of PR agents.

Who is the mystery woman starting a war between the moguls?

Those are the headlines I wake up to the next morning, along with about a dozen missed calls from my boss and Jasper.

Un-fucking-believable.

I’ve spent years—my whole life—trying to avoid trouble, and it somehow always finds me, especially when Jasper Wright is involved.

Someone at the Champagne Lounge had snapped a picture of the three of us, one where Charlie is standing and appears to be facing off with Jasper, not fleeing like the table’s on fire. Another person—or maybe the same person—gave them an exaggerated account of the blow-up between the three of us, complete with details about Jasper’s mad dash out of the restaurant to catch me. Thankfully, there was nothing about our fiery kiss in the parking garage.

I’ve spent years working people out of situations like this and never quite believing them when they tell me that it’s not how it looks. I always thought, in the back of my mind, that they were getting what they deserved for the bad decisions they made.

I get it now, though.

As soon as I sit down at my desk, I plug Jasper’s name into a search engine. Instead of the positive news about his charitable contribution and the work with his company, it’s all about the two of us. I make the mistake of looking at the comments on some of the articles. Worse than the stories is the hate I’m getting from women across the board. Fans of Charlie and Jasper are uniting against me. Calling me slut. Whore. Gold-digger. It’s awful and disheartening and altogether untrue.

Having put it off long enough, I close out of the articles and call Zach back.

“It’s not how it looks,” I say as soon as he answers.

He laughs, but I can tell he’s pissed. “I’ve heard that one before.”

“Seriously, though. It was just—”

“Say no more,” he interrupts me. “It was just a business meeting. They’re both clients of yours, and the pictures were taken out of context. The press release from Durand Communications has already gone out. Sky and Wright will be issuing statements to the same effect.”

I sink a little into my chair, feeling scolded. I’m so used to being the golden child that this is a strange feeling—to have someone else have to pick up after me.

“I trust this won’t further affect your business relationship with either man?”

“No,” I say, mustering up as much firmness as I can. “Not at all.” Though, to be honest, I’m not sure. I’ll just have to deal with them when I can. At this point, it’s just damage control.

Not in the mood to talk to anyone else, I put my phone on Do Not Disturb and spend the day catching up on paperwork, billing, and other administrative duties, not stopping even for lunch. At six o’clock on the dot, I shut everything down and get changed into yoga pants and a tank top.

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